de la Pole v. Broughton

Citations

• 118 Wash. 395
• 204 P. 15
• 1922 Wash. LEXIS 685

Syllabus

<p>Vendor and Purchaser (131, 133) — Bona Fide Purchaser — Title —Consideration and Good Faith — Evidence—Sufficiency. Where mother and daughter, as sole heirs of an estate, joined in a deed to a tract of land belonging to the estate, for which the daughter never received any portion of her share of the consideration, the daughter has no right of action against the purchaser to recover her undivided one-half interest on the theory that he dealt in bad faith, since the purchaser was justified in assuming, when tendered a deed duly executed by mother and daughter, that the mother was authorized to receive that part of the consideration belonging to the daughter.</p>